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Federer Wins 1000th Match & ATP Brisbane, Wawrinka Tunes Up AO Defense With Chennai Win
Steen Kirby, Tennis Atlantic

ATP Brisbane

Roger Federer survived an onslaught from Milos Raonic to win in 3 sets 6-4 6-7 6-4 and capture the Brisbane title for his 1000th career match victory. Fed saved five break points in the third set, after dropping the second set tiebreak, and broke when he needed for the victory.

Federer recorded wins over John Millman, an Aussie wild card, in 3 sets, along with James Duckworth and Grigor Dimitrov en route to the final. He got better as the tournament went on. Raonic beat Mikhail Kukushkin in straights, Sam Groth in 3 sets, winning a pair of tiebreaks and Kei Nishikori, who he upset by winning two out of three tiebreaks in a nail-biting match.

Jamie Murray and John Peers defeated Nishikori and Alex Dolgopolov in the doubles final.

ATP Chennai

Stan Wawrinka won Chennai yet again, he defeated Borna Coric, Gilles Muller, David Goffin in straight sets before toppling qualifier Aljaz Bedene in the final. Wawrinka was the top player in the field this week and was barely tested.

Surprise finalist Bedene beat Lukas Lacko and upset Feliciano Lopez before scoring two big wins over Spaniards Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Roberto Bautista Agut. He saved multiple match points against RBA and won in three sets.

Rendy Lu and Jonathan Marray won the doubles title over Raven Klaasen and home favorite Leander Paes.